Something's been strange over the past few months. Consumers, who usually push for change, want things to stay the same, while companies who would traditionally not want to change their core business and target markets... are changing their core business and target markets.
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Netbooking for a week, part 2: why the iPad's not such a bad idea
25 February 2010 -
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Simon
Simon
I'm 4 days in, and this thing is killing me. Seriously. How can they call this thing a computer?
There is one thing all computer users dread: something needing repair. This problem is especially bad when your main computer is a laptop: if something goes wrong with the hardware, you've got no choice but to send it in for service. Welcome to my situation, Neowinians. I know you've been here before, and I hope you can sympathize.
Bing has been pushing its new technology hard, considering themselves to have gone above "search engine" into the realm of "decision engine" - and I commend them for that. But what they've really done is make Google realize that in the last few years, search has not changed. Up until recently, it was just spiders crawling...
So I've finally decided to give Windows programming a try, after doing some Cocoa on OS X and a few years of all that web stuff + PHP/MySQL. Went out to Chapters and bought myself "Beginning C# 2008" by Christian Gross.
Why can't people help trolling in forum threads, or in news comments? In no way is this a problem specific to Neowin, but rather a problem with so many people on the internet.
I don't think anyone doubts that I'm a supporter of the environment and a string believer in climate change. So I'm sure all of you will be surprised that I am not so excited for Earth Hour. Why is that?
Well, the past few weeks have been absolutely brutal. I started school, which is fine, but pretty much everything besides that has been a disaster.
Well, free WiFi wasn't nearly as abundant in Europe as I had hoped it would be, so this is going to have to be my monster post about my trip to Europe. If you want the gist of it right now: the trip was an incredible, hilarious, educational, and fun disaster. I'm not saying it was a bad trip; on the contrary, it was the best vacation of my...
Well, I'm stuck in Toronto. My flight out of Newfoundland was delayed by an hour and a half, so I'm sitting in Pearson International with my iPod touch, waiting for my group of 30 peoople to get out on a flight with as many empty seats.
